{"id":216430,"date":"2026-07-21T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/216430\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:19:16","slug":"washington-approves-iraqi-proposal-to-mediate-between-us-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/216430\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington approves Iraqi proposal to mediate between US and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 US President Donald Trump has approved Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi\u2019s proposal to mediate between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This diplomatic breakthrough is intended to diffuse the current crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, according to local news outlet Channel 8 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During their recent meeting in Washington, al-Zaidi asked Trump for approval to establish an official Iraqi mediation effort between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump authorized al-Zaidi to undertake the plan as part of attempts to address the continuing Strait of Hormuz issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to insiders, the mediation would focus on restoring stability to marine shipping and energy flows across the key canal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Zaidi informed Trump that, while Pakistan has been involved in political and diplomatic discussions, Iraq plans to lead the economic track of mediation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Iraqi effort will look for answers to interruptions in commercial shipping and oil shipments via the Strait of Hormuz, which have led to a broader global energy and economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, al-Zaidi plans to visit Tehran on Thursday for a series of high-level talks. He and the accompanying Iraqi officials are anticipated to return to Baghdad later that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 US President Donald Trump has approved Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi\u2019s proposal to mediate between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[1711,154,14808,34,94,650,69,1690,1705],"class_list":["post-216430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-baghdad","tag-energy","tag-energy-flows","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-pakistan","tag-tehran","tag-the-united-states","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116957935691294347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}